The Sailor Who Sailed After the Sun

Publication(s)

  • First publication
    • Grails Quests, Visitations, and Other Occurrences, 1992
  • Wolfe collection(s)
  • Other anthologies
    • The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixth Annual Collection, 1992

Wolfe's comments from the Introduction to Innocents Aboard

"'The Sailor Who Sailed After the Sun' is a favorite story of Joan Gordon's. Joan is an academic who knows a lot about this kind of story and was disappointed that it wasn't in my previous collection, Strange Travelers. So here it is."

Summary

A monkey takes a sailor's place on a sea voyage.

Analysis

  • Sources of quotes
  • Meanings of names
  • References to other works
  • Theories about what happens under the surface, what the narrator isn't telling us, who the narrator is and when and why s/he is telling the story, what the whole thing "means," etc.
    If there are multiple or competing theories, each one should be given a name with a three-bang (!!!) header; if the page begins to get out-of-hand from the size of these, as could happen in a few cases, they should be shuffled off to their own page(s).
  • Etc.

Unresolved Questions

  • Was it A or was it B, or was it X or Z?
  • Was it he or was it she, or was it you or me?
  • Who dunnit?
  • Did the Star Child really start WWIII at the end of 2001?

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